Iron Fist is one of Kevin’s seminal works and an obligatory reference within the free-market anti-capitalist movement. It addresses in succinct form many of the issues that Kevin addresses in more depth in his Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. In particular, the essay presents a historical analysis of how capitalism evolved as a succession of “revolutions imposed from above” by a succession of State-sponsored dominant classes to the detriment of the working class. And then it folows with an analysis of the five key institutional obstacles engineered by the State for supressing economic liberty in a capitalist system: Ideological hegemony, the money monopoly, patents, infrastructure subsidies, and “military keynesianism”.

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